Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament

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Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament is written by Richard Dean Burns and published by Macmillan Reference USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0684192810 (ISBN 10) and 9780684192819 (ISBN 13).

Covering antiquity through to the breakup of the Soviet Union, this three-volume set makes accessible to the general reader the history and processes of international arms control and disarmament. The work covers the history of arms control in all regions of the world: changing relationships and alliances in the Middle East, neutralization of Switzerland, international co-operation in Latin America, the failures of the League of Nations, the successes of the United Nations inlcuding its tenacity in dismantling the Iraqi nuclear arms capability, and many other topics of worldwide importance.